Great New Example of Why GNU/Linux is Inherently More Secure Than Windows
GNU/Linux is patching flaws very quickly (almost immediately), whereas Microsoft hides flaws and patches them a long time after their discovery, sometime patching them secretly or only once attacks strike
View ArticleMake A Movie Out Of Photos In Ubuntu Using PhotoFilmStrip
So you really like the new Face Movie feature in Picasa 3.8 and want it in Linux too? Well, it doesn't work for now, but you can use PhotoFilmStrip.read more
View Article7 Things You Can Do in KDE, But Not in Windows
When I tell people that I use Linux, they look at me with pity. When I go on to tell them that the KDE desktop is in many ways more innovative than Windows 7, the looks of pity changes to caution.
View ArticlePlanning to Migrate to Linux? BEWARE!!!
As more noise in favor of GNU/Linux is heard, some people might feel tempted to replace their solid, green-red-blue-and-yellow Windows system with an unknown, shady, black-and-white Linux penguin. Some...
View ArticleWindows Phone 7: the best choice for patent trolls
The Free Software Foundation (FSF) today issued a warning to consumers over Microsoft's upcoming Windows 7 Phone Series. The software release is backed by a reported 400 to 500 million dollar marketing...
View ArticleWine 1.2.1 Released
The Wine maintenance release 1.2.1 is now available. The source is available now, Binary packages are in the process of being built, and will appear soon at their respective download locations. Whats...
View ArticleNew Linux Foundation survey shows significant gains for enterprise Linux
According to the survey, in the last two years, 66% of new Linux deployments have been green-field deployments, while 36.6% have been migrations from Microsoft Windows.
View ArticleIntellectual Ventures and Other Microsoft-affiliated Groups Are Poisoning...
New examples of patent trolls and patent boosters (possibly even lobbyists) putting a form of patent tax on the de facto universal platform which is free Myhrvold’s Intellectual Ventures, which is...
View ArticleUbuntu PPA Problem - Reason for Concern?
jeffhoogland.blogspot: There is namely one issue: Canonical does not review any of the packages that are uploaded to PPAs. Because of this adding software from various PPAs wily nilly in reality is...
View ArticleWine 1.3.10 Released
The Wine development release 1.3.10 is now available. What's new in this release. Support for notification balloons in system tray. Obsolete AudioIO sound driver removed. More work on ActiveX support....
View Articlefrance to bring in non windows tablet tax
The French government has come up with a wizard wheeze which seems to be entirely designed to back the software giant Microsoft.In a Franco-American alliance, the likes of which has not been seen since...
View ArticleIcinga (Monitoring Solution) Installation And Configuration On CentOS
Icinga is an enterprise grade open source monitoring system which keeps watch over networks and any conceivable network resource, notifies the user of errors and recoveries and generates performance...
View ArticleWhat the heck is FreeDOS?
I went to the Pikom PC Fair yesterday and I noticed several brands sold with “FreeDOS”. These brands include Acer, Asus, HP, and (I’m told) Dell. None of the sellers seem to know what FreeDOS is, and...
View ArticleLinux Desktop "On Par" With Mac and Windows? No Way!
Carla Schroder lists the many reasons why Free Software should never attempt to imitate the vastly inferior products of proprietary Windows and Mac!
View ArticleRussian President Medvedev asked to fund Windows clone
A free, open-source Windows "clone" - ReactOS - that has been in development for over a decade has caught the eye of Russian President Dmitry Medvedev.A student at a Russian high school the president...
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